READING POETRY

Birthdays
I’ll bake tonight a rounded caketo celebrate the wish I makeI’ll lit my candles with the Moonand let them glow in nightly gloom.
I wish myself a better year,to feel and see what I can’t hear,and as a snake sheds its own skinI’d like to shed my old chagrin.
In darkened room...Read More »

Hypocrisy
She’s dressed in black with white high heels,
A mini dress her leg reveals,
She fakes some tears with mini skills,
She hides her face and what she feels.
She wants to say: “I am a saint,
I can’t bear badness, I do faint,
I talk to angels while I paint,
I am suave, fragile and quaint”.
Her...Read More »

From Now Until It’s Now Again
I’d like to be a drop of rain,
a tear to shine in eyes of crane,
to feel no sadness nor a pain.
From now until it’s now again.
I’d like to be a bitter chain
to hold those hearts that only drain
the human will. Those hearts too vain.
From now...Read More »

Innocence
When falling off the cliff they cry,hurting the iris of their eye,flying before they learn to fly,whose words will kiss their tears to dry?I am the Catcher in the Rye.
The Fallen knows the Catcher’s dreamto keep alive th’ innocent gleam.The Catcher feels the Fallen’s sense:“Don’t kill the heart of Innocence!Let...Read More »

I Thee Wed
She wasn’t taller than her doll-house.She was still writing to Santa Claus.Dark curly hair and wide open eyesshe piously kneeled piercing the skies.She smiled to Heaven and silently said:“With this heart I Thee wed!”.
She blossomed slowly as a dark Rose,her wild thorns brought bleeding to her many foes.Her...Read More »

Apart
Her eyes were shivering a tearwhile the old year was shotshe softly sighed “Happy New Year!”And dried the tearful thought.
Her eyes were echoing the heartits beating ten to onethe counted seconds, whole in part,made future be outrun.
Her eyes kissed Mother’s loving handsand Father’s forehead graythey cry in their faraway landsand...Read More »

One Art
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster,
Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:places, and...Read More »